That's what fascism feels like.
You're not allowed to say that or invoke Hitler until we're all in gas chambers! You're only allowed to call it out after it happens! You're supposed to believe the liars until people start writing the history of the events!
-Magoos
Historically, the problem of "this is just like Hitler!!!" has been the way in which it numbs people to the invocation.
That is, in no small part, the appeal among conservatives of calling everyone from Hegel to Whole Foods a form of creeping fascism. Putting every liberal politician (and a fair number of conservatives) in Hitler Cosplay helped diminish the idea of an authoritarian police state to seat belt laws and smoking bans.
The flip side is that stodgy NYT Op-Ed Writers who casually reject that any fascist impulse exists at all. Everyone from Fransisco Franco to Sheriff Joe Arpaio was just interested in Law & Order. The game of explaining why a given genocidal policy or nakedly fascist aesthetic is actually something different, you idiot, you imbecile, goes right up to the point of denying migrant detention camps along the border and mass extermination of Semitic people in the Middle East and trillionaires doing the "Roman" salute are what they clearly appear to be.
In the end
gets you coming and going.
It becomes a casual invective to describe even the most mildly distasteful political views and a "you're just being hysterical" rebuttal to any policy that is quite literally adopting mass extermination.
Yep. Fascism doesn't work without a dedicated cult of personality, and that's exactly what Trump has with his legion of MAGA asshole-idiots who are willing to commit violence for their messiah.
They can't kill all of us.
What do you think they develop AI for?
This is called ‘stochastic terrorism’. Publicly painting people in the most outrageous light until some of your acolytes feel called upon to realize the supposedly non-commital threats you made.
Fuck Trump. Fight the fascists.
This is called ‘~~stochastic~~ terrorism’.
It's carefully timed and targeted, thus no longer "stochastic"
So then you're saying they need more threats from constituents for supporting Trump?
So if there were threats against them for NOT standing up to him would it cancel the other threats out?
I'm excited to find out!
Tldr: Threats work and nothing will be done until they're more afraid of you than they are of fascists.
You know, something like this can't happen in the USA because of the Second Amendment. I've learned this from countless of dudes on the internet that screamed endlessly about it, so this must all be a dream. Only woke nations line Nazi Germany can fall for this 🙄
Republicans: We're in charge!
Trump and ELon's SS:
The MAGA crowd are today's brown shirts. US democracy won't survive this term.
Fascists are cowards. We know this.
Knives are starting to feel extra long at night...
Pussies
This is one situation where I think telling someone to “man, the fuck, up” is appropriate.
Protect your family, yes. But, also protect the fucking country. Step aside if you can’t or don’t act the victim when the blowback hits you.
Pretty soon they're going to be terrified of everyone for the same reason. Grow a spine, and do what's right for your country, not Krasnov
If a death threat makes you back down I want you out of my government. I'd consider it on par with treason or like a soldier going AWOL in combat.
Maybe we should make them more afraid of us than of them? If that's what they're signaling works.
Is that true? I haven’t seen any Republican got hurt physically so far.
Is there any mechanism for Congress to hold anonymous votes on topics that might upset the fragile man-baby?
The only thing providing ANY resistance is the fear of what happens if constituents realize their representative killed social security.
There will be no resistance whatsoever for an anonymous vote.
I don't think it would help. They would just pick whoever they thought was most likely to turn. The threat of them picking the wrong person would create a peer pressure effect towards conforming. Much like the Roman army's decimation.
It's easy. You call him a fat little bitch who sucks at everything and who only won because Republicans are all idiots.
And that's playing it neutral. If you like, you can start leaning into it a little.
I mean that's what they asked for. They've seen how Putin operates and Trump has shown great admiration for his methods. So they should assume he would use those kinds of threats and alleged follow-through.
I suppose fear, anxiety, stress and worry are back to being acceptable only for those not lucky enough to be monied. Moreso. Again. Smh
Wait until the threats against them for criticizing Trump and those for not protecting their subsidies and pork barrels cross the equilibrum and start to shift the balance.
Counterpoint, send credible death threats when they DON'T oppose Trump's policies.
Remember when his wife made her cause ‘fight against bullying’
They should try that with someone older. I’m 50/50 on whether I fear death or whether to look forward to eternal naps.
Where are they going to find someone older than a member of Congress?
When this tension pops,
People are going to start being killed.
Please be safe
Guess we'll just just have to threaten them even more physically to get the results we want then
All thanks to the greatest, brightest, most powerful, best at everything nation in the world🤪
I say they fear the media more. In deep red states the primary is the real election. Fox News plays kingmaker
🇺🇸Nuke the GOP🇺🇲
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